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As we are now : a novel by May Sarton

A powerful and beautiful novella of one woman, consigned to a dreary retirement home, who wages a defiant battle against the dulling forces around her After seventy-six-year-old Caro Spencer suffers a heart attack, her family sends her to a private retirement home to wait out the rest of her days. Her memory growing fuzzy, Caro decides to keep a journal to document the daily goings-on & mdash;her feelings of confinement and boredom; her distrust of the home & rsquo;s owner, Harriet Hatfield, and her daughter, Rose; her pity for the more incapacitated residents; her resentment of her brother, John, for leaving her alone. The journal entries describe not only her frustrations, but also small moments of beauty & mdash;found in a welcome visit from her minister, or in watching a bird in the garden. But as she writes, Caro grows increasingly sensitive to the casual atrocities of retirement-home life. Even as she acknowledges her mind is beginning to fail, she is determined to fight back against the injustices foisted upon the home & rsquo;s occupants. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.

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  • "A novel in the form of a diary, this story tells of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who has suffered a heart attack and been deposited by relatives in an old people's home. Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties, she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory. "I shared the anger and the righteous indignation which I felt behind every line".--Madeleine L'Engle."
  • "A powerful and beautiful novella of one woman, consigned to a dreary retirement home, who wages a defiant battle against the dulling forces around her After seventy-six-year-old Caro Spencer suffers a heart attack, her family sends her to a private retirement home to wait out the rest of her days. Her memory growing fuzzy, Caro decides to keep a journal to document the daily goings-on & mdash;her feelings of confinement and boredom; her distrust of the home & rsquo;s owner, Harriet Hatfield, and her daughter, Rose; her pity for the more incapacitated residents; her resentment of her brother, John, for leaving her alone. The journal entries describe not only her frustrations, but also small moments of beauty & mdash;found in a welcome visit from her minister, or in watching a bird in the garden. But as she writes, Caro grows increasingly sensitive to the casual atrocities of retirement-home life. Even as she acknowledges her mind is beginning to fail, she is determined to fight back against the injustices foisted upon the home & rsquo;s occupants. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton."@en
  • "An old woman, placed in a country nursing home by her brother, struggles to maintain her sanity and dignity by expressing her thoughts in a notebook."
  • "An old woman, placed in a country nursing home by her brother, struggles to maintain her sanity and diginity by expressing her thoughts in a notebook."@en
  • "Includes the page proofs of her novel."

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  • "Roman américain"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Translations"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"

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  • "As we are now : a novel by May Sarton"@en
  • "Zoals wij nu zijn"
  • "As we are now : a novel"
  • "As we are now : a novel"@en
  • "Wo bu yao deng si"
  • "As we are now : A novel"
  • "As We Are Now : a Novel"@en
  • "As we are now; a novel"
  • "Nous, les vivants ?"
  • "As we are now"@en
  • "As we are now"
  • "Nous, les vivants?"

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